From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: feedmail.el in the public domain? Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:13:50 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <83h8isj59j.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1537050415 10414 195.159.176.226 (15 Sep 2018 22:26:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 22:26:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 16 00:26:51 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g1J1f-0002VH-5M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:26:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56933 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1J3g-0001VE-ON for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 18:28:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42023) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1J2d-00011o-GN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 18:27:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1IpC-0006Fz-Nu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 18:13:59 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:50580) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1Ip7-00069v-Ax; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 18:13:53 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE0E160EF0; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:13:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id UfyAOe3RYui4; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:13:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F05161170; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:13:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 7Wu64VWx3UzV; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:13:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BA743160EF0; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:13:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83h8isj59j.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229825 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > We've been through this, you should be able to find the relevant > discussions in the archives. This file is in public domain and cannot > be changed to anything else, AFAIR. I couldn't find the relevant discussions despite three or four Google searches; could you briefly elaborate? If a file is in the public domain then there is no legal obstacle to placing whatever copyright license you like on a copy that you redistribute. At least that's true in the US, which is the controlling legal authority for FSF distribution. If there's some foreign-copyright issue here, we may need to have FSF legal counsel look at it, since these things can be tricky.